Saturday, February 1, 1930 THE MILITANT Page 2 YOUNG VANGUARD The Curse of Mining Accidents The Last Plenary Session of the 2 tempo of work of the Los compared The Disruption of the Canadian Youth League mirror and cannot see who is reflected there.
Many comrades will see in the theses the virtue of fearless self criticism. But this Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth in itself can lead us nowhere. Sell criticism which is not subordinated to Leninist political analysis is meaningless. It would TAYLORVILLE, III. Since the strike be like the doctor who has the courage of December 9, after the underground wage to inform you that you are suffering from slaves had been driven back to work by the a curable disease without telling you how united and unscrupulous forces of the Note: The author of this article is show such a sterility that they cannot to take measures to remedy it. The theses Farrington Fishwick gang, the Peabody a member of the Young Communist create the forces to conquer their shortcom have the courage to informn us of an unCoal Co. officials, the tin soldiers of GovLeague in New York, whose name can ings and assure their growth?
satisfactory conditon in the but ernor Emmerson, the sheriffs and gunmen not of course be revealed. At the time What kind of a situation have we reached they can give no political analysis for the and the whole of the yellow press, two of our expulsion from the Party, he when leaders of the Leagues must be threat basis of this situation, and can only propose deaths by electrocution in the mines, severvoted with the majority of the Party ened like two year olds to carry out their artifical measures for the elimination of al semi serious and almost fatal acidents and League. Recently, he has written Communist duties? The enlarged Plenum this situation, in which miners had their spinal columns to us after a thorough study of the of the makes it mandatory for all What stage of political paralysis and fractured, have occurred.
question, he has decided to support the Leagues to create in the immediate future stagnation has been reached in the Communist League (Opposition. Speed up Causes Accidents strong working factory nuclei in the large can be clearly seen from the methods by working as much as possible inside Let us see what is the cause of all enterprises employing many young workers.
which the leaders hope to uncover the cause the and Party for our viewthis slaughter of the miners underground.
The fallure to carry this out must bring of the crisis. They are going to make an point. The course of comrade is only The answer that any experienced miner with it a change in the composition of the investigation in the Czecho Slovakian, Brita sign of a steady movement inside will give is: the speed up system, the arroleading organs of the League. Does this ish, Norwegian and Austrian Leagues!
the official Party in our direction. Ed.
gant handling of the men by the internal not resemble the last, strained efforts of Doesn this show complete political imA most remarkable document, indicaofficials and their lickspittles of the Peapeople who feel helpless before a hopeless potence? Not to be able to analyze the poltive of the trend of development in the situation? And should this not put a spur body system, in conjunction with the Fishitical factors which are the cause of the Communist movement, and therefore dewick Haywood officials of the company conto every Communist to start thinking serunsatisfactory situation but to make an inserving of the close study of every sincere trolled union, the United Mine Workers.
iously, and to stop shouting in chorus: vestigation as if trying to detect some techCommunist, is the theses adopted at the Trotskyist renegrades. nical irregularity! Yes, they have arrived The union double crossers and the last enlarged Plenum of the Young Com Confusion on Right and Left Danger at a blind alley, and do not know how to Peabody Simon Legrees know that thoumunist International (Daily Worker, 14 retrace their steps. The seeds of the strugsands of miners are tramping the streets The theses speak of the Right danger.
and 15 30. If the members of the gle against Trotskyism have ripened inin search of work, and that those at work, would give some deep thought to Then they go on to say: Along with this to a pernicious plant.
who get only a scanty wage, fear to open these theses many of them would danger there is also the socalled Left It is plain. The poisonous opportunist their mouth to protest against the inhuman danger. namely: a tendency towards petty see in the depths of the Communist course of the last six years could result and brutal conditions and handling of the bourgeois radicalism leading to the divorcestream much that they fail to see on the in nothing but political demoralization. The miners, for that would mean the loss of ment of the leadership from the masses It would enable them to begin surface.
road of bureacacy, forgery and falsification, their jobs which is equivalent to a death and the mass organizations, its transform mockery of self criticism, elimination of sentence to many of them, as well as for the process of breaking through the thick shell of deception in which they have been ation into narrow groups of Left phrase inner party democracy, expulsion and exile their wives and children, If it is not congers. Then it goes on to say that this steadily encased. They might then observe of the Leninist vanguard could lead only to direct death it is at least a slow death by danger is either not seen or undestimated, in the face of the Party, lines and features confusion, bankruptcy and disintegeration.
starvation, since the jails and poorhouses that they do not want to or are unable to of a strange and peculiar nature lines No number of revolutionary phrases about are already overcrowded.
that run crooked, features that reveal sharp carry on the struggle aginst it. Why is the brave young Communists can help.
Now let us see the additional causes distortions.
this so? Why cannot the Left danger be The brave young Communists can find a for accidents. In my experience, have seen and fought against? The answer is: The theses speak of the unsatisfactory solution only beneath the banner of the come in contact with men who have passed for the same reason that Lovestone saw the Bolshevik Leninists.
their examination before the Board of the situation in the sectons of the Along this path they Right danger in Trotskyism. He him will find their way, even it at the present which in some countries takes on a form of State of Illinois, appointed by the Governor seil was the most typical and consistent moment its direction is not yet clear to that did not know the rudiments of third a crisis. The theses state that there was representative of the Right danger in Amorto be observed during the past year an exthem. The course of events is bound to grade arithmetic. Some of them had no or fca. The enlarged Plenum looks into the illuminate the road.
ceedingly dangerous lagging behind in the little practical experience in the mines.
But they had a pull with the bosses who of revolutionary know that this ilk of numbskulls make development. We are informed that there good slave drivers, They generally pass It is now one year since the first group had been no political principle at stake.
the examination (we have some that can has been an average decrease of 20 in the number of members and factory nuclei in of young Communist League Members in The ideological reign of terror and provoceven read or write) and then are turned Canada challenged the arbitrary methods ations to which the expelled were treated, loose to look after the miners safety. Such most countries and an even sharper deof forcing decisions down the throats of the crease in some countries. gerious polithad, unfortunately, been a lesson only to violation of even the state mining laws men bership Since that time the leaderical and organizational crisie in Czecho.
the Toronto membership.
and misconduct of coal company officials ship following out with servile obedience Slovakia, England, Norway, Austria. We The Hypocrley of the Stalinists is general and rampant all over the Peainstructions from the Young Communist Inbody system.
are made to understand that the decisions ternational, have plunged the league from In the narrow development of the Canof the Fifth Congress of the have Officials Delinguent one crisis into ancther till today the Canadadian League, it is not at all surprising that suffered the fate of merely remaining deThe offcials of the generally ian League is fighting for its very existence, the leadership was so easily able to force cisions.
stand idly by and apparently don care The membership continues to the bogeyman of Trotskyism down the The Cause For The Sitaation Is. The how many violations of the mining laws the shrink; its influence wanes with dangerous throats of the mombership. Instead of trycoal companies commit, Situation ing to raise the political consciousness of or how many rapidity; the Young Worker as a bi weekly deaths and accidents occur.
the rank and Ale, who were crying for disThey only What is the cause of this deplorable comes out at rarer intervals than when it watch the check off system. So long as situation? The main reason for the unsatcussion, the leadership demanded under was supposed to be published once a month.
threat of expulsion machine like obedience.
they can draw their fat salaries and hug isfactory situation in the should be It is time the members of the beThose who protested were expelled. The and streeze the fat lady, Miss Cellaneous sought in the sectarlan isolation and separ gan seriously considering the reasons for Expenses, they are deaf and dumb to anyation from the basic mass of the working leadership, playing on the ignorance of the the failure and degeneration of the League League was able to defeat and deaden the in Canada and also the Young Communist fighting spirit of the membership. For the thing pertaining to the welfare of the hands class youth which dominates in the organthat feed them.
izations of the Can this be the International, Smiths and the Bucks to come out now and The National Miners Union intends reason? It must be plain to every intelliResponsibilities With blame the League and Party rank and file and strives to do away with this disgracegent Communist that what is stated here Basically responsible for this condition, for passivity and disinterestedness in the ful and deplorable condition. But it has a as a reason is no reason at all, but only the of course has been the failure of the lead fate of movement is sheer hypocricy. They tremendous front aligned against it, runconsequence of a wrong line. They have ership of the Young Communist Internation themselves are responsible. The League ning from the officialdom of the old union substituted the results of an ultra Leftist al and the Comintern on an international and Party membership repeatedly demandThis is standing to the state soldiers.
policy for the cause.
matters on their head. Why don they exscale which undermined the revolutionary ed discussion on the issues that were split So the miners continue to be plucked movement throughout the world, and con ting the world Communist movement.
plain the reason which has led to this secand degraded with the aid of the invisible tarian isolation, and not tell us that there tributed to the revival and growth of the The cutting off of the Opposition has not whips, Hunger and Starvation. The miners socialist Reformism. Until the first fight is an unsatisfactory situation and the reason strengthened the L, as the leader must wake up to the fact that the inside the about six months pre ship promised it would. On the contrary it officials only want their dues and assessfor this is sectarian isolation. The whole situation as described in the vious to our expulsion, a more homogene has drained and continues to drain blood. ments to spend, as they are doing sow, ous organization could have hardly been It has opened up the organization to the for court proceedings where they fight for theses must lead every Communist to serimagined or found in the The pro attack of Police Chief Draper, which has the remnants of the loot that remains in ious thought. And a series of questions gress of the League was good. We were ended in a miserable fiasco for the League the The treasury 18 must loom up in his mind: able to strengthen the National Executive, and Party. Today the Party is not even virtually depleted, even the sick and death How does it happen that the sections of organize sport units and form a National able to organize an election campaign in benefit fund is almost gone. The miners the reveal such a stubborn inability Workers Sports Association, increase the Toronto, units don meet, complete de have nothing left to lose now, except bad to adapt themselves to the general tempo membership, and take on more activity in moralization exists. The League has false mining conditions, but they have a new of revolutionary development. Why is it the trade unions and on the cultural field. policies due to the wrong estimation of the world to gain. united battle by them, that the sections are lagging behind, conIn spite of these redeeming features, world situation. The Workers Sports of with the spirit of the old days of 1894 to tinue to lag behind and still lag behind?
the ideological level of the membership re Canada has been completly wrecked due to 1898, when it was necessary to organize How does it come that this lagging behind mained very low. Factional fights were the ridiculous irresponsible tactics, miners secretly, will win the miners their has become such a universal phenomenon?
practically unknown, and so far as political Does this not lead one to believe that the In the trade unions the influence of victory.
differences there hardly seemed to be any. the has completly disappeared be FRITZ BODE, Sr.
roots reach deeper than is apparent to the The expulsion of comrade Spector on the cause of the adventurous Leftism of the eye? Is there not reason to belleve that issue of Trotskyism came like a bolt from leadership. The Socialist Youth Organthe cause of this crisis is not merely that the blue. The opposition squabbles of the izations, which had repeate lly met with there is no will, no determination on the American Party had been always regard failure in tryin to organize the youth, has gent. It is not yet too late to save the part of the Leagues to accomplish their ed with disdain and cynicism. The fight since our expulsion been successful in formif the rank and file begin immediate agittasks in accordance with the necessities of inside the Comintern, the Anglo Russian the situation, but that there is something ing an Arbeiter Ring Club and a National ation forCommittee, the Chinese Revolution, the dif Workers Alliance. In the Palestine affair, politically unsound at the bottom of the Reinstatement of all the expelled with structure? The theses tell us that we lag ferences inside the Russian Party, didn many former League sympathizers marched full rights and positions held prior to the But what does it propose? It directly bother anybody and were never distogether with the Zionists and are today behind.
expulsion.
It tells cussed.
coming more under their influence. The says: we must not lag behind.
The issue inside the had arisen main activity of the once leading Toronto Down the arbitrary methods of the us that the situation is unsatisfactory. What from the insistence of the Toronto memb League has been reduced to monthly social suppression of league discussion.
must be done? More of this kind of work ership to criticise the and, wbile gatherings. The full discussion of the platform and more of that kind of work must be it led to the expulsion of 77 active members, Jone!
The answer to the question of what now of the Russian Opposition, had been confined solely to Toronto. Thero is to be done is therefore more than urHow does it happen that the M QUARTER 2